[GRLUG] Flash Disk Recovery

[Collin Kidder]

Something Casey said made me think of another potential suggestion:

Some versions of windows default to write caching even flash drives. If 
windows does that and somebody yanks the drive without properly stopping 
the device first then they run the risk of blowing the fat table. This 
could be prevented by forcing windows to not write cache the drive.

Justin Popa wrote:
> All great suggestions, but they are doctors, so they get their way.
> Infrequent downloading because they're too busy most of the time. We also
> had originally set up a 'never to leave the office with this device' policy,
> but now we're replacing about 1 a month due to lost items(lost at home, in
> another state, on a plane, in the lake). That's why I'm more in the mood of
> finding some decent recovery software than changing how they handle them.
> It's just impossible. Anyway, I found Runtime Software's "GetDataBack for
> FAT" that runs on Windows. It's recovered them and seems to be working fine.
>
> On Nov 29, 2007 11:52 AM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> I'd suggest increasing the frequency of cradle visits.  When the
>>     
>>> machines corrupt the drives, is the most-recently-recorded data also
>>> corrupt, or just the other data that hasn't seen a cradle yet?
>>>
>>> I seem to recall that the FAT filesystems have a backup table, too.
>>> But it's been ages since I fiddled with fsck.vfat
>>>       
>>
>> I would suggest reformatting the cards more frequently. I have had similar
>> problems with card corruption in a digital camera and frequent reformatting
>> seems to have fixed that problem. Considering the medical nature of the data
>> being stored, pull each card aside once a week and format it to be safe. You
>> might also consider tracking corruption for each card so you can tell if
>> it's one or two cards that are the problem, or the whole batch.
>>
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